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Hi Everyone, |
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My name is Peter Peterson and I represent a group of a grad students |
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at UCLA. We're in a computer systems performance analysis course and we |
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were hoping to do a general performance comparison of gentoo vs. a |
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popular binary i386-compatible distribution (probably ubuntu) in some |
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"real-world" server tests to try and meaningfully calculate the |
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performance gains that local compilation provides. (For example, |
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apache2 requests processed per second on the same hardware.) |
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I've subscribed to this list because we want the gentoo community to |
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be involved in helping us design the tests so that we can hopefully |
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all feel good about what and how we are testing the systems. |
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We have no particular outcome in mind; our group represents a wide |
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range of computer users, from Mac, Linux, and Windows enthusiasts, and |
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we have all used a wide variety of Linux distributions. We have simply |
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noticed that much of the discussion of gentoo's performance advantage |
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is anecdotal and we're genuinely hoping to provide some meaningful |
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experimental data for discussion. Also, if anyone knows of any |
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available benchmark data or papers on this subject, we'd love to hear |
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about them. There was apparently a paper on slashdot a couple of years |
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ago, but the host it was on appears to now be squatted. For that |
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matter, if this is a well understood or closed issue (for example, if |
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the statistics that people quote are actually from good experimental |
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data) please let us know. |
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Is anyone here interested in discussing this project? We are |
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specifically interested in discussing methodology, testing suits, |
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CFLAGS and other options. Our desire is not to "trick out" gentoo or |
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ubuntu, but rather quantify the performance benefit that gentoo has |
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over binary distributions with "normal" compile flags (whatever normal |
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is). |
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Thanks for your time, |
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Peter Peterson (et al) |
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Peter A. H. Peterson, technician and musician. |
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